Tim Blair

Tim Blair
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Sunday,
August,
31,
2008,(4:22am)

After agonising over her employment problems—â€œThankfully, I’ve been told that the magazine division for which I work will not be affected by the redundanciesâ€—striking Fairfax journalist Stephanie Wood asks the crucial question everyone else is avoiding:

McCain is running for President and not Sarah Palin. This means dropping the “old and dying” stuff. The jokes and comments that McCain’s VP might become president in the next 4 years. We don’t want people thinking about Sarah as the President.

I say this because I believe Sarah could win if she were the one running for President.

It’s one thing to steal the thunder of a regular old political candidate; that’s all part of this stupid, cynical game. But it wasn’t just Obama’s thunder McCain endeavored to steal. It wasn’t just the Democrats’ thunder. It was the thunder of every Americanâ€"because Obama’s nomination was part of the history of this nation and belongs to all its citizens.

F**k John McCain and his contempt for history and contempt for country and contempt for all of us. The rotten thief.

UPDATE II. Democrats seem to think that any fight is an unfair fight. Watch as Keith Olbermann carries on like a 1950s housewife coming down from a Valium bender (â€œthe pot roast! The POT ROAST!â€) over John McCain using Hillary footage in a campaign commercial. Itâ€™s just so unfair.

Tim Blair
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Sunday,
August,
31,
2008,(3:23am)

Maybe it hardly bears thinking about the morning of November 5 if Barack Obama has lost to John McCain the previous day.

Print really doesnâ€™t do Kettle justice. Ideally these words would be sung, possibly by Smokey Robinson. Kettle maintains his lyricism throughout the piece, particularly when he predicts â€œthe global dismay that would greet the election of President McCain. Much of the world would simply despair of the American people â€” and so would many Americans.â€

Tim Blair
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Sunday,
August,
31,
2008,(1:25am)

What other country in the developed world produces beauty queens who hunt caribou and serve up a terrific moose stew? As an immigrant, I’m not saying I came to the United States purely to meet chicks like that, but it was certainly high on my list of priorities. And for the gun-totin’ Miss Wasilla then to go on to become Governor while having five kids makes it an even more uniquely American story.

Next to her resume, a guy who’s done nothing but serve in the phony-baloney job of “community organizer” and write multiple autobiographies looks like just another creepily self-absorbed lifelong member of the full-time political class that infests every advanced democracy.

Tim Blair
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Saturday,
August,
30,
2008,(11:31pm)

â€œAround the blogosphere you will see many left-wing writers criticizing Palin for lack of experience,â€ writes Tyler Cowen. â€œMaybe this criticism is correct, but these commentators are falling into The Trap.â€ (Via Instapundit.) â€œThe Trapâ€, of course, is the whole experience issue. For the record, and future reference, this is the full extent of Obamaâ€™s experience:

Two years at Occidental College, two years at Columbia University, a year in business, three years as a community organizer and then law school. Obama’s four two-year terms in the Illinois state senate are his version of permanence, but in two of those terms, he was busy running for higher office.